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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <1677@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 11:53:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1677
Posted: Tue Aug 12 11:53:36 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Aug-86 04:21:54 EDT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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First of all - copying the ROMs from a PC-2 machine to put in the
PC-1 is stealing. But enough about *my* hang-ups...

The PC-1 ROM code doesn't know the foggiest thing about a hard-disk
drive. In my PC-1 I've installed a (very early Maynard Systems)
hard-disk and controller system. To boot up - from the floppy - and
then get access to the hard-disk requires inclusion of a hard-disk
driver in the floppy's config.sys file; the driver also must reside
on the floppy. My floppy's autoexec.bat file is minimal: it calls
up a file (setup.bat) on the hard-disk to finish everything up
(start up sidekick, search, aliases, etc).

Recently I *purchased* the upgrade ROMs from IBM. And guess what!
The thing *still* doesn't boot up from the hard disk. That's because
the controller card doesn't have the required ROM on it to auto-boot.
But I'm going to fix that, too, 'cause the bearings are going out on
the drive and I'm going to replace it (and the controller card, too)
with a 20 Mbyte as soon as it arrives. Here's hoping that the new
controller card will autoboot...

keith